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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 240 

Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding manifestations of anti-Semitism 

by United Nations member states and urging action against anti-Semitism by United Nations officials, United Nations member states, and 

the Government of the United States, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 15, 2005 

Mr. SANTORUM (for himself, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. SMITH, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. 

COLEMAN, Mr. VOINOVICH, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. BURR, 

Mr. COBURN, Mr. VITTER, Mr. BUNNING, Mr. NELSON of Florida, Mr. 

NELSON of Nebraska, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. DEWINE, and Mr. BIDEN) 

submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding manifestations 

of anti-Semitism by United Nations member states and 

urging action against anti-Semitism by United Nations 

officials, United Nations member states, and the Government of the United States, and for other purposes. 

Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, 

recognizes that ‘‘the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is 

the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the 

world’’; 
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Whereas United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 

(1975) concluded that ‘‘Zionism is a form of racism and 

racial discrimination’’ and the General Assembly, by a 

vote of 111 to 25, only revoked Resolution 3379 in 1991 

in response to strong leadership by the United States and 

after Israel made its participation in the Madrid Peace 

Conference conditional upon repeal of the resolution; 

Whereas during the 1991 session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the Syrian Ambassador to the 

United Nations repeated the outrageous ‘‘blood libel’’ 

that Jews allegedly have killed non-Jewish children to 

make unleavened bread for Passover and, despite repeated interventions by the Governments of Israel and 

the United States, this outrageous lie was not corrected 

in the record of the Commission for many months; 

Whereas in March 1997, the Palestinian observer at the 

United Nations Commission on Human Rights made the 

contemptible charge that the Government of Israel had 

injected 300 Palestinian children with HIV (the human 

immunodeficiency virus, the pathogen that causes AIDS) 

despite the fact that an Egyptian newspaper had printed 

a full retraction to its earlier report of the same charges, 

and the President of the Commission failed to challenge 

this baseless and false accusation despite the request of 

the Government of Israel that he do so; 

Whereas Israel was denied membership in any regional 

grouping of the United Nations until the year 2000, 

which prevented it from being a candidate for any elected 

positions within the United Nations system until that 

time, and Israel continues to be denied the opportunity 

to hold a rotating seat on the Security Council and it is 

the longest-serving member of the United Nations never 
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to have served on the Security Council although it has 

been a member of the organization for 56 years; 

Whereas Israel continues to be denied the opportunity to 

serve as a member of the United Nations Commission on 

Human Rights because it has never been included in a 

slate of candidates submitted by a regional grouping, and 

Israel is currently the only member of the Western and 

Others Group in a conditional status limiting its ability 

to caucus with its fellow members of this regional grouping; 

Whereas the United Nations has permitted itself to be used 

as a battleground for political warfare against Israel led 

by Arab states and others, and 6 of the 10 emergency 

sessions of the United Nations General Assembly have 

been devoted to criticisms of and attacks against Israel; 

Whereas the goals of the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism were undermined by hateful antiJewish rhetoric and anti-Israel political agendas, prompting both Israel and the United States to withdraw their 

delegations from the Conference; 

Whereas in 2004, the United Nations Secretary General acknowledged at the first United Nations-sponsored conference on anti-Semitism, that: ‘‘It is clear that we are 

witnessing an alarming resurgence of this phenomenon in 

new forms and manifestations. This time, the world must 

not—cannot—be silent.’’; 

Whereas in 2004, the United Nations General Assembly’s 

Third Committee for the first time adopted a resolution 

on religious tolerance that includes condemnation of antiSemitism and ‘‘recognized with deep concern the overall 

rise in instances of intolerance and violence directed 
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against members of many religious communities . . . including . . . anti-Semitism . . .’’; 

Whereas in 2005, the United Nations held an unprecedented 

session to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp; 

Whereas democratic Israel is annually the object of nearly 

two dozen redundantly critical resolutions in the United 

Nations General Assembly, which rarely adopts resolutions relating to specific countries; and 

Whereas the viciousness with which Israel is attacked and 

discriminated against at the United Nations should not 

be allowed to continue unchallenged: Now, therefore, be 

it 

1 Resolved, That— 

2 (1) the Senate— 

3 (A) welcomes recent attempts by the 

4 United Nations Secretary General to address 

5 the issue of anti-Semitism; 

6 (B) calls on the leadership of the United 

7 Nations to officially and publicly condemn anti8 Semitic statements made at all United Nations 

9 meetings and hold accountable United Nations 

10 member states that make such statements; and 

11 (C) strongly urges the United Nations 

12 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiza13 tion (UNESCO) to develop and implement edu14 cation awareness programs about the Holocaust 

15 throughout the world as part of an effort to 
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1 combat the rise in anti-Semitism and racial, re2 ligious, and ethnic intolerance; and 

3 (2) it is the sense of the Senate that— 

4 (A) the President should direct the United 

5 States Permanent Representative to the United 

6 Nations to continue working toward further re7 duction of anti-Semitic language and anti-Israel 

8 resolutions; 

9 (B) the President should direct the Sec10 retary of State to report on acts of anti-Semi11 tism at the United Nations and United Nations 

12 agencies by member states; and 

13 (C) projects funded through the Middle 

14 East Partnership Initiative and United States 

15 overseas broadcasts should include efforts to 

16 educate Arab and Muslim countries about anti17 Semitism, religious intolerance, and incitement 

18 to violence. 

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